A 1960S MOTOR CITY MUSIC FEATURE RECALLED: 1963!

From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1963

When Detroiters Read About the ‘Beatles’ the Very First Time

 

 

 



FROM THE BACK-PAGES OF THE DETROIT FREE PRESS

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1963

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LONDON — AP — Police admitted Monday that Beatlemania — one of the wildest teenage phenomena yet — just about has them beat. (CONTINUES — please read the complete article below) . . . .

— DETROIT FREE PRESS


DETROIT FREE PRESS Tuesday, October 29, 1963


TWO ‘BEATLES’ GET A FAN’S ATTENTION (Associated Press; Monday, October 28, 1963)

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A MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK: THE 4 TOPS, 1964!


RELEASED BY MOTOWN RECORDS, January 1965, the group’s self-titled Four Tops studio album would be their very first for the Motown label. Produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland, six of the album’s 11 tracks were written by the Motown song-writing trio. Two of the H-D-H songs would become singles. The first, Baby I Need Your Loving(Pop; #11) would become their first million-selling single, released, July 1964. Their follow-up, Without The One You Love (Life’s Not Worth While) (Pop; #43) was released by Motown in the fall of 1964. The Four Tops‘ third single was written by Mickey Stevenson and Ivy Joe Hunter. Ask The Lonely (Pop; #24) was released in February 1965. The album peaked at #63 on the Billboard Top 200 LP chart, 1965.

THE FOUR TOPS circa 1964

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